Parfums d'Amour
is a collection of short stories promoted by the Literary Prize Les Abeilles de Guerlain in collaboration with the publishing house Cherche-Midi. An appointment, this one arrived at its seventh edition: new writers expressed their feelings on parfums d'amour this year.
Submissions have been 700 and several writers, a journalist specialized in the field of parfums and the same CEO of Guerlain picked up what they thought they were the best tales. Twenty in total, you won't find a short tale, similar to another: for sure in each of them there is the strong relationship of people with parfums during their existence.
Parfums accompanies our life and they, like a song or a movie, are in grade to fix with their fragrances, special moments, creating memories. Parfums are in fact sensorial pictures of special instants: people can rediscover the parfum of a beloved dear person, or of a place, a situation, also after many decades. Stories you'll find here will develop very well this thematic. These short-tales are tender, in love for the sacrality of a gesture, and what it means in terms of time and memories.
Some examples?
There are many sentimental connections in these tales: there is a parfum rediscovered once the person is adult; there is a tale seen under the perspective of a cheated wife: another one will speak of cemeteries, vampires; an old lady, remembers her past love wearing the parfum that to them meant everything; we will assist at a trial where it is discussed the proposal of a... parfumless society!
It is also taken in consideration the sensibility of the nose of someone: yes, there are people with a nose more "developed" in terms of parfums and they find also the natural parfum of the skin of a person too strong to them. In a short-tale is discussed the real fragrances of love. A commixtion of rose, cinnamon, champagne and maybe...cigarettes. In Sauf Le Bleu, MaryLaure will write on memories and present including strong decisions after all not taken thanks to the past and its sensoriality. I loved this quote so badly: "Je ne suis pas le bonheur, je suis sa promesse. Je ne suin pas l'amour, je suis son parfum!" Exceptional!
If you love parfums, if you love the multiform universe of fragrances, and if you love beautiful stories of men and women, this book is for you!
Highly recommended!
Oh: I don't want to forget to tell you that the Literaty Prize Les Abeilles de Guerlain is waiting for you! with their new submissions launched for 2022. The thematic chosen is: Jardin Secret!
I thank Cherche-Midi for the physical copy of the book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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